Marriages, Families, and Relationships: Making Choices in a Diverse Society, International Edition - Couverture souple

Lamanna, Mary Ann; Riedmann, Agnes

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1111521182 ISBN 13 : 9781111521189

Editeur : Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc, 2011

Synopsis

This bestselling marriage and family text combines a rigorous scholarly and applied approach with a unique theme especially relevant to today's dynamic global environment: "Making choices in a diverse society." The text achieves an excellent balance between the sociological and ecological or family systems theoretical perspectives, while including extensive coverage of family dynamics and interpersonal relationships. The authors use warmth, humor, and an engaging presentation to create a highly readable text that offers insightful perspectives on the diversity of our modern society, including different ethnic traditions and marriage and family alternatives.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Mary Ann Lamanna is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Her research and teaching interests include family, reproduction, gender and law. Other research includes the sociology of literature -- specifically "novels of terrorism" -- and a sociological analysis of Marcel Proust's novel IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME. In addition to numerous articles in law, sociology and medical humanities journals, Dr. Lamanna is the author of EMILE DURKHEIM ON THE FAMILY (Sage, 2002) and co-author of a book on Vietnamese refugees. She received her bachelor's degree Phi Beta Kappa from Washington University (St. Louis) in political science, her master's degree in sociology (minor in psychology) from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and her doctorate in sociology from the University of Notre Dame.

Agnes Riedmann is Professor Emerita of Sociology at California State University, Stanislaus. Her professional areas of interest are theory, family and the sociology of body image. Dr. Riedmann spent the 2008–09 academic year as a Fulbright Professor at the Graduate School for Social Research, affiliated with the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, where she taught courses in family, social policy and globalization. She is author of SCIENCE THAT COLONIZES: A CRITIQUE OF FERTILITY STUDIES IN AFRICA (Temple University Press, 1993). Dr. Riedmann attended Clarke College, Dubuque, received her bachelor's degree from Creighton University and earned her doctorate from the University of Nebraska.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1111521182
• ISBN 13: 9781111521189
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 656
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible